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...Iran's International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology estimates that "the possibility of an earthquake measuring more than six on the Richter scale occurring now in Tehran is about 90%." "The government must have more oversight on new building constructions, making sure they obey safety codes," adds Abdollah Saidi of the Geological Survey of Iran. And a debate about moving the capital - and its 12 million inhabitants - has flared again. Ashtiany says the idea diverts attention from achievable goals. "We have to work to strengthen structures and reduce risk," he says. "The tsunami showed us that disasters...
...girlfriends with whom they can hold hands and socialize freely, and the girls want to wear colorful head scarves rather than the black, tentlike veil known as the chador. They see only one way they can get those freedoms. "We want to change the nature of the state," says Abdollah Momeni, a student leader. "We want more democracy, human rights...
...Abdollah Nouri does not look like a dangerous counterrevolutionary. In a nation run by clerics, he ranks among the most senior, not quite an ayatullah but a hojatolislam, or "proof of Islam." Over dates and tea in his office, the diminutive religious scholar turned newspaper publisher spoke with tones of bureaucractic conformity. But his words were far from blather. "Transferring power to the people was an objective of our revolution 20 years ago," he told TIME in a rare interview. But, he added candidly, "power has a tendency to create authoritarianism...
Rafsanjani is also feeling pressure from Syria, which has a huge stake in the pending peace conference. Iran opposed Syria's acceptance of Secretary of State James Baker's peace proposals. But that displeasure did not prevent a visit last week to Damascus by Iranian Interior Minister Abdollah Nouri, who almost certainly had a hand in McCarthy's release. How, then, to explain Leyraud's subsequent abduction? "Rafsanjani may be in the driver's seat," says Sir John Moberly, a former British ambassador to both Iraq and Jordan, "but there are quite a few backseat drivers...
...Iran Director Abdollah Faryar of the U.N. Information Center in Teheran told Eells: "The Communist effort lately has been concentrated on teachers and students . . . It is true that the Tudeh party has been outlawed, but we have now instead the 'Young Democrats,' the 'Supporters of Peace,' and so forth . . . I judge that 40% of the teachers are Communist sympathizers...
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